The book Love your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have is designed to help guide you toward a better relationship with your body and improve body image. This transformative workbook offers a way out from the constant critical thoughts and words you think and speak about your body. It is designed to help you learn more about your body and yourself so you can start to appreciate the gift you have. Your constant negative thoughts, unrealistic expectations, perfectionism and body hatred keep you down, depressed and struggling. This book is about hope. It will help you end your struggles and learn to love and accept yourself.
With 80% of American women dissatisfied with their bodies, this book is a must have. Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have is filled with exercises, examples, techniques, personal stories and recommendations that will teach you to create an environment of self-nurturing and self-care. Statistics show that negative body image issues manifest themselves at a very early age. These scars will continue to hurt you if you don't stop, and take the time and energy to heal them now. The biggest gift you can give yourself is to let go of the constantly nagging voice that is inside your head telling you that your body doesn't measure up. Love your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have can help free you of those negative, hurtful thoughts and help you create an accepting and nurturing attitude about your body.
Tami Brannon-Quan, Ph.D., M.F.T. is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Addiction Specialist. Her area of specialty is treating individuals with eating disorders and body image issues. Tami has been counseling individuals, couples, families and leading groups since 1988. As the development of eating disorders is rising, so is a poor body image among women in general. Working with women stuggling with a poor body image has become a passion for Tami. It is through this work, that she co-authored Love Your Body: Change the Way You Feel About the Body You Have with Lisa Licavoli, R.D., C.C.N.
Tami also co-facilitates the "Love Your Body Workshop", an experiencial workshop she and Lisa Licavoli, R.D., C.C.N. designed to help women heal their body image issues. She has worked in residential treatment as the body image therapist, taught at Saddleback College for the Summer Eating Disorder Institute and has been a guest speaker at schools, colleges, and other organizations to educate the community and professionals in the area of eating disorders and body image.
Her private practice is in Laguna Hills, California.